ANGST 2010
Edited by Kurtis Droge, Sinan Ulusoy, Hannah Kirsch, and Mike Bentley, with help from Matt Bollinger, Trygve
Meade, Andy Watkins, and Daniel Pareja
Packet by Ottawa (Ben)
TOSSUPS
1. In one scene of this play, a character compares the emptiness of a maid’s hands to Scotland, compares her
smell to the bogs of Ireland, and “did not look so low” to see her “Netherlands” on her globe-shaped body.
That encounter with an ugly maid arose after the character shooed away a group of partiers – which included
Angelo and Balthazar – from the house he was staying in, even though the house belonged to one of the
partiers. That partier’s wife, (*) Adriana, thought she had let in her husband earlier, but it was really his long-lost
brother making a short visit. Opening with Aegeon talking about having twin sons and twin servants, Antipholus
and Dromio respectively, for 10 points, name this play about two pairs of twins from Syracuse and Ephesus, written
by William Shakespeare.
ANSWER: The Comedy of Errors
2. While acting as the Count of Mortain, he married his first wife Isabel, but later annulled the marriage
after discovering that they shared the same great-grandfather. He became monarch without a wife, but his
marriage to Isabella of Angouleme triggered a war with France. In that war, Arthur of Brittany, who held
some claim to this man’s throne, was captured, and Anjou and Maine were retaken by (*) Philip II. Following
this king’s failure in France, Pope Innocent III excommunicated him for refusing to accept Stephen Langton as the
new Archbishop of Canterbury. Langton supported barons who launched a rebellion in the early 13th century that
led to reforms in this man’s monarchy. For 10 points, name this King of England that lost Normandy to the French
and signed the Magna Carta.
ANSWER: John of England (accept John Lackland or John I )
3. In one of this thinker’s works, he noted that the railroad financing system began a trend of owners and
creditors of a company being one and the same, blurring the line between credit and capital. In that same
work, he also mentioned the clash between the “machine” of industrial production and the profit focus of the
titular entity. In another work, he suggested that it would be impossible to overthrow the “Vested Interests”
that control some industries. In addition to The (*) Engineers and the Price System, he observed that members of
the title group desired items simply because of their expensive price and status, leading to his namesake economic
good, in his major work, which introduced the concept of "conspicuous consumption." For 10 points, name this
economist of Norwegian descent who wrote The Theory of Business Enterprise and The Theory of the Leisure Class.
ANSWER: Thorstein Veblen
4. This element appears in a compound along with oxygen and chlorine in a reaction that can be used to
convert amides to aryl ketones, the Vilsmeier-Haack reaction, while a conversion from alcohols to alkyl
chlorides, the Appel reaction, makes use of carbon tetrachloride and a molecule consisting of this element
bound to three aromatic rings, arranged to make a propeller. That same reagent is used to convert alcohols
and acids to esters in the (*) Mitsonobu reaction, and that molecule's salt is used to make ylides that are Wittig
reagents. Along with calcium, this element is found in apatite, and consumption of an acid containing this element
is linked to decreased bone density. Forming the link between nucleotides in DNA, for 10 points, name this
element, of which three are found in ATP.
ANSWER: phosphorus [prompt on “P”]
5. A reworking of this composition was originally intended for use in an opera-ballet scene in which
Cleopatra appears in a hallucination, as well as in a scene called The Dream Vision of a Peasant Lad from
another opera. This piece by the composer of The Fair at Sorochyntsi opens with rapid figures (*) in the high
strings, contrasted with a fortissimo fanfare in the low brass. and a trumpet fanfare in this work represents the
entrance of the demon Chornobog. The sounding of a bell immediately before the final section of this work, which
prominently features the harp in the edition orchestrated by Rimsky-Korsakov, represents dawn and the
disappearance of various evil spirits. For 10 points, name this account of a witches' sabbath on St. John's Eve,
written by Modest Mussorgsky.
ANSWER: St. John's Night on Bald Mountain [or St. John’s Night on Bare Mountain]
6. He makes Joe, his guide, trek to Box Car Pond instead of taking the boat, something Joe hasn’t done in
sixteen years. He takes Ida Putiak, a manicure girl who works at the Pompeian Barber Shop, to the
Biddlemeier’s Inn, but he doesn’t want her to “think [he’s] getting fresh” when he asks her out. He dabbles
in politics through his friendship with Seneca Doane. He visits a woman named Zilla after her husband is put
in jail for shooting her in the arm, and he catches that husband, Paul (*) Reisling, in Chicago with May
Arnold. He cheats on his wife Myra with Tanis Judique, whom he helps find a house. He is pressured to join the
Good Citizens’ League by Vergil Gunch and is the owner of a real-estate firm in the modern city of Zenith. For 10
points, name this title character of a 1920 novel by Sinclair Lewis.
ANSWER: Babbitt
7. The Fermi-LAT collaboration predicts that an annihilation of two of these particles would produce a
monochromatic spectral line with photon energy equal to these particles’ original mass. Another proposal
for their existence claims that since they are not found in Earth’s minerals or the Milky Way’s interstellar
medium, they must instead be forming extended halos. Consistent with the preservation of R-parity, their
supersymmetry equivalent would likely be light (*) neutralinos. Having a mass of over 10 giga-electron-volts,
they cannot, by definition, be found with conventional detectors that rely on electromagnetism or the strong force.
Often contrasted with massive compact halo objects, or MACHOs, for 10 points, name these proposed constituents
of dark matter, large particles that interact only through gravity and the weak force.
ANSWER: Weakly Interacting Massive Particles [“wimps”; prompt on “dark matter” or “neutralino”]
8. An entrance porch in Oxford by Nicholas Stone contains a statue of this figure standing up, which was
damaged during the English Civil War. Federico da Montefeltro, who is dressed in a suit of armor, holds his
hands in the same position as this figure in a Piero della Francesca painting. Veit Stoss created a work
showing twelve scenes from the life of this figure, while two putti grasp at the legs of this figure, who is
standing on a pedestal in a work by (*) Andrea del Sarto. A failed suitor for her hand breaks a rod against his red
pants in a work about her marriage by Raphael. Sometimes depicted in coronation scenes, Michelangelo created a
sculpture of Nicodemus assisting her and a sculpture in Bruges that shows an infant leaving her lap. For 10 points,
name this woman often depicted receiving the Annunciation.
ANSWER: Madonna [or The Blessed Virgin Mary or equivalents; prompt on “Mary”]
9. An extinct subspecies of this animal, idaltu, had a longer head than similar species, and idaltu’s fossils
were discovered alongside hippopotamus bones in Ethiopia. The hippopotamus was slaughtered with stone
tools, suggesting that idaltu was an immediate ancestor to this species and gave credence to the RAO model in
hominid evolution. The Omo remains, discovered by Richard Leakey, are considered the oldest remains for
this species, while a more extensive discovery at Jebel Irhoud suggested that childhood lengthened upon the
introduction of this species, giving more time for the brain to understand larger groups and rudimentary (*)
language. Homo heidelbergensis is considered the common ancestor of this species and the coexisting
Neanderthals. For 10 points, name this hominid whose early examples were found at Cro-Magnon, modern
examples of which may play quizbowl.
ANSWER: Homo sapiens (sapiens) (prompt on human)
10. A recent decision from a panel created by this treaty found that “zeroing” violated U.S. law, so the
Department of Commerce would not be allowed to consider average prices over actual prices from exporters.
The panel on Article 1904 of this document only made one decision that (*) didn’t involve the U.S. – an
antidumping conclusion based on rolled steel – while a notable 2005 decision about this document was on the issue
of softwood lumber. Brian Mulroney was re-elected in 1988 while defending a proposal for this document agreed
upon with George Bush, though ultimately Jean Chretien and Clinton signed it with Carlos Salinas. Drafted shortly
after the Maastricht Treaty that created the European Union, for 10 points, name this agreement that set up a trade
bloc between the U.S., Canada, and Mexico.
ANSWER: North American Free Trade Agreement (accept NAFTA; prompt on "FTA" or "free trade
agreement")
11. His early pastoral scenes, such as Wood with Beech Trees and Stammer Mill with Streaked Sky,
emphasized the lines in the landscape, while one work from his luminist period, Evening, displays a red tree
against a dark blue sky. Another work from that period, Mill in Sunlight, restricted his range to the primary
(*) colors, but he added more color in some of his cubist works. One of his cubist pieces, Composition in Oval with
Color Planes 2, made use of the horizontal and vertical lines that dominated his work in a new movement. Noted
for Composition in Red, Yellow, and Blue within his neoplasticist style, for 10 points, name this Dutch member of
De Stijl who painted a work representing the grid of Manhattan’s streets, Broadway Boogie-Woogie.
ANSWER: Piet Mondrian
12. One title character of this novel is described as “the blue-eyed Jewish-Irish Mohican scout who died in
your arms at the roulette table at Monte Carlo”. At the beginning of this novel, one character angrily calls
her boyfriend a "section man" for boasting about his paper on Flaubert. That character frantically repeats
"Lord Jesus Christ, have mercy on me," a prayer she found in (*) The Way of the Pilgrim. In this novel, an
actor angrily argues with his mother, Bessie, while sitting in a bathtub, while the opening scene of this novel shows
a character sitting at Sickler’s with her boyfriend, Lane Coutell. That actor pretends to be his older brother Buddy to
talk his sister through a nervous breakdown. The title characters of this novel are the youngest children of a family
that appeared on a radio quizbowl program. For 10 points, name this novel whose title characters are two Glass
children created by J.D. Salinger.
ANSWER: Franny and Zooey
13. This object is seen thumbing its nose at a German U-boat sailor in Mr. Punch’s History of the Great War,
in response to the US entering WWI, with the object saying it is “über alles” in its namesake “repartee”. In
the late 18th century, Marie Antoinette was given flowers associated with this object as part of a publicity
campaign by Parmentier, who also kept this crop (*) guarded by soldiers who were told to accept bribes, so that
it would appear valuable and peasants could steal them. It was grown in the Tuilieres Garden during the Paris
Commune to stave off starvation, and it was planted to feed families after the shrinkage of farm plots in Ireland.
Introduced to Europe from the new world, for 10 points, name this starchy vegetable whose famine in the 1840s led
to a massive emigration to North America.
ANSWER: potato (accept “tuber” in the first sentence; prompt on that answer afterwards)
14. A reference to Cyrus the Great in the late chapters of this book, who reigned after the death of its author,
is interpreted either as a prophecy or as a signal that book should be divided into three sections based on
different authorships. Chapter 37 mentions a prayer by King Hezekiah, while earlier in Chapter 7, the
titular prophet warns King (*) Ahaz to have faith in the Lord when Syria and Israel allied to attack Judah. As part
of that warning, this book promises that, after Judah’s enemies fell, the Lord would give a sign, describing that the
“virgin will be with child, will give birth to a son, and will call him Immanuel”. For 10 points, name this Old
Testament book that, Christians believe, predicts the life of Jesus Christ, a book that precedes Jeremiah.
ANSWER: Book of Isaiah
15. According to the ASTM D341 method, the calculation to find this property for a mixture makes use of
the logarithm of the logarithm of this property for the individual components to find a blending index, a
procedure also known as the Refutas function. In liquids, the temperature dependence of this property can
be found with the Williams-Landel-Ferry model, but it is usually simplified to an exponential decrease with
an increase in temperature. It contrasts with thermal effects when it is found in the numerator of the (*)
Prandtl number and, in the denominator of the Reynolds number, it contrasts with inertial effects. Constant for
Newtonian fluids, for 10 points, name this property that describes a fluid’s resistance to stress deformation,
commonly known as a resistance to flow.
ANSWER: viscosity
16. One battle fought here saw a landing at Sarimbun Beach and a massacre at the Alexandra Barracks; that
clash ended with Arthur Percival's surrender to Tomoyuki Yamashita. An early governor of this region,
John Crawfurd, signed an agreement that allowed the local population to have their own sultan in exchange
for putting the territory under British possession. The Dutch opposed Hussein Shah, but they forgoed their
interest as part of the Anglo-Dutch Treaty of 1824. It was grouped with (*) Penang and other separated coastal
areas as the British Straits Settlements until after WWII, when this territory became its own crown colony and
eventually gained independence in 1965 from the peninsular nation to its north. Founded as a city by Stamford
Raffles, for ten points, name this small nation found near the tip of mainland Malaysia.
ANSWER: Singapore
17. This compound is linked to the synthesis of cathelicidin, a peptide that attacks tuberculosis, and its
medical uses include topical application for psoriasis treatment. This compound becomes biologically active
after a conversion in the liver that adds 25 hydroxyl groups, and then by 1-alpha-hydroxylase in the liver, to
produce another compound used to determine levels of this chemical in the body. Its most common form is
known as (*) cholecalciferol, likely from the fact that it is combined with cholesterol by the parathyroid glands in
response to low calcium levels. A lack of melanin can cause deficiency of this secosteroid, which is available as a
supplement due to its role in reducing the risk of osteoperosis. For 10 points, name this fat-soluble vitamin whose
production can be stimulated by sunlight and whose deficiency in children leads to rickets.
ANSWER: vitamin D [most of the clues refer to D3, so accept it]
18. This poem mentions a place containing “hoary seers of ages past,” which is surrounded by “Old Ocean’s
grey and melancholy waste.” This poem describes "Hills/rock-ribb'd and ancient as the sun" and commands
the reader not to go "like the quarry-slave at night/scourged by his dudgeons." Predicting that “each one as
before will chase/his favorite phantom,” this poem tells the reader that he will “be a brother to the (*)
insensible rock/and to the sluggish clod,” and will “lie down/with patriarchs of the infant world.” In this poem, a
certain entity “speaks a various language” “To Him who in the love of nature holds/communion with her visible
forms.” For 10 points, name this meditation on death, written by William Cullen Bryant.
ANSWER: "Thanatopsis"
19. The protagonist of this film is told that “hate keeps a man alive” by a character who calls him Forty-One.
The disguised hero of this film once gives his chief enemy a knife and reveals his identify through a secret
ring. One character declares that having one wife “is not civilized”; that character was Hugh Griffith's Sheik
Ilderim. Near the end of this film, the protagonist’s mother and sister, played by Martha Scott and (*) Cathy
O’Donnell, are cured of their affliction. It’s not Raintree Country, but it was filmed with MGM Camera 65, giving
it a super-wide aspect ratio. The title character in this work is condemned by his former friend, Messala, while other
characters include Frank Thring’s Pontius Pilate. The chief antagonist uses spikes during its famous chariot scene.
For 10 points, identify this Charlton Heston film based on a novel by Lew Wallace.
ANSWER: Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ
20. One work by this thinker, which led to him being barred from a position at City College, advocated that
nuptual ties between men and women should not be considered firm until pregnancy. In addition to Marriage
and Morals, he argued for “sensabilia,” or neutral “stuff,” that is both physical and mental in his works
Analysis of Matter and Analysis of Mind. He wrote a guide to some of the world's most famous pholosophical
questions in his (*) Problems of Philosophy and declared that "Religion is based, I think, primarily and mainly upon
fear" in a speech first delivered at the Battersea Town Hall in 1927. For 10 points, name this British philosopher
who gave the lecture “Why I am not a Christian” and co-wrote Principia Mathematica with Alfred North
Whitehead.
ANSWER: Bertrand Russell
BONUSES
1. This element is found in most natural gases that are classified as “sour”. For 10 points each:
[10] Name this element that, with hydrogen, is found in thiol groups, which are not good to have in fuels.
ANSWER: sulfur [prompt on “S”]
[10] This three-pipe mining technique extracts sulfur from the ground by using superheated water to force it to the
surface. It is the most common method of sulfur extraction.
ANSWER: Frasch process
[10] One way of removing sulfur from natural gas, hydro-desulfurization, often makes use of a sulfur-poisoned
catalyst of this element, whose disulfide is a common dry lubricant. The artificial element Technetium was first
discovered by bombarding a sample of this element with neutrons.
ANSWER: molybdenum
2. A woman is being chased through the garden in The Pursuit, the first entry in a series he did called the Progress
of Love. For 10 points each:
[10] Identify this French artist also known for Blindman’s Bluff and The Love Letter.
ANSWER: Jean-Honoré Fragonard
[10] Fragonard is best known for this work, which depicts a bishop who is unaware that a woman is kicking up her
skirt at a hiding lover while on the titular conveyance.
ANSWER: The Swing [or L’Escarpolette]
[10] The statue of the Seated Cupid in Fragonard's The Swing was in real life sculpted by this man. He's also known
for sculptures like France Embracing the Bust of Louis XV and the light-hearted Standing Bather.
ANSWER: Etienne Maurice Falconet
3. Identify these branches of Islam, for 10 points each:
[10] This denomination, with many adherents in Iran, rejects Abu Bakr as the successor of Muhammad and instead
believes it is Ali. Its major sect is the Twelvers, and it is often contrasted with Sunni Islam.
ANSWER: Shi’a Islam or Shi’ite
[10] Within Shi’a Islam is this branch that believes the Aga Khan follows the hereditary line. They differ from the
Twelvers in their prayer practices and rejection of shari’a law.
ANSWER: Ismaili [accept word forms] or Nizari
[10] This offshoot of Ismailism, with links to Gnosticism, has a religious leadership group called the Uqqal. Unlike
most Islamic sects, adherents have more freedom in which rituals they wish to perform, they believe in
reincarnation, and do not marry outside of their branch.
ANSWER: Druze
4. Identify these European explorers who traveled around Australia, for 10 points each:
[10] This Dutch explorer was the first European to reach New Zealand and Fiji, and discovered an island that he
named after his sponsor, Anthony van Diemen.
ANSWER: Abel Tasman
[10] This English navigator discovered the strait between Australia and Tasmania, explored the area around
Brisbane, and, while commanding the Investigator, circumnavigated Australia. Several places in South Australia
and Victoria are named after him.
ANSWER: Matthew Flinders
[10] The strait between Australia and Tasmania was named after this navigator who sailed with Flinders.
Separately, he reached mainland Australia’s southernmost point, and explored the area around Hobart.
ANSWER: George Bass
5. Canadian poet F.R. Scott defended this book from obscenity charges, and it was banned in the United Kingdom
until 1960. For ten points each:
[10] Name this novel whose title character, Oliver Mellors, is a gameskeeper at Wragby Hall.
ANSWER: Lady Chatterley’s Lover
[10] This British author of The Rainbow – which also faced obscenity charges – and the poem “Snake” penned Lady
Chatterley’s Lover.
ANSWER: David Herbert Lawrence
[10] Kate Leslie befriends Don Cipriano after leaving a bullfight in this Lawrence novel that was originally to be
titled after an Aztec deity.
ANSWER: The Plumed Serpent
6. Crossing North America by railroad was all the rage in the late 1800s. For 10 points each:
[10] The first transcontinental railroad in the U.S. was completed in 1869 with the junction of the Central Pacific
and Union Pacific lines at Promontory Point, which can be found in this U.S. state.
ANSWER: Utah
[10] The American route was not the first rail link between the Atlantic and Pacific; a railroad in Panama promoted
by this founder of Pacific Mail was built in 1855. This financier also co-founded the Metropolitan Museum of Art
and the first SPCA in the US.
ANSWER: William Aspinwall
[10] This country's transcontinental railroad was built by its namesake Pacific Railway company, and its last spike
was driven in by Donald Smith near Craigellachie.
ANSWER: Canada
7. For ten points each, name these things that are interconnected through Greek myth.
[10] This reworking of the Homerian epics by Derek Walcott has a first part that highlights Philoctetes and a second
part in which Major Plunkett and his wife Maud deal with the effects of British colonization.
ANSWER: Omeros
[10]This young daughter of King Alcinous finds Odysseus naked, shipwrecked on the shore of Phaecia. Aristotle
claims that she later married Telemachus, whom she bore Perseptolis.
ANSWER: Nausicaa
[10] This character roughly corresponds to Telemachus, and, to a more subtle extent, Hamlet, in James Joyce's
Ulysses and is considered to be Joyce's alter ego by some. He is also the main character of Joyce's The Portrait of
the Artist as a Young Man.
ANSWER: Stephen Dedalus (accept either name)
8. Some members of this group of algae utilize filaments called hormogonia to move. One genus of these,
Synechocystis, has a species that was the first photosynthetic genome to be sequeneced. FTPE:
[10] Name these organisms that were responsible for most of the oxygen in the earth's early atmosphere.
ANSWER: cyanobacteria [accept blue-green algae]
[10] The heterocysts of cyanobacteria carry out this process in which a very common gas is converted to ammonia.
ANSWER: nitrogen fixation
[10] When conditions are unfavourable, cyanobacteria can stop their metabolism and enter a dormant state known
as this. These structures are known for their high levels of cyanophycin as well as their thick walls.
ANSWER: akinetes
9. At one point in this piece, the bassoons mockingly play a sarcastic, up-tempo rendition of the student song
"Fuchslied." For 10 points each:
[10] Name this celebratory overture written to commemorate its composer's reception of a doctorate from the
University of Breslau.
ANSWER: Academic Festival Overture [or Academische Festoverture]
[10] The Tragic and Academic Festival overtures were written by this composer of a symphony derisively
nicknamed "Beethoven's Tenth."
ANSWER: Johannes Brahms
[10] Brahms wrote four compositions for this type of ensemble, one of which uncharacteristically begins in a major
key and ends in the tonic minor. Ives' composition of this type includes a middle movement called TSIAJ, or "This
Scherzo is a Joke," and its first movement sees only the "title" instrument of the ensemble play throughout.
ANSWER: piano trio [prompt on trio]
10. One of his works, Letter on the Blind, investigates what perception is from the perspective of a blind person
who becomes able to see. For 10 points each:
[10] Name this French Enlightenment thinker who also wrote Rameau’s Nephew and D’Alembert’s Dream.
ANSWER: Denis Diderot
[10] Diderot prepared this major collection of Enlightenment thought. Other contributors included Voltaire and
Louis de Jaucourt, and its name has since been used to describe similar compendiums of knowledge.
ANSWER: L’Encyclopédie or The Encyclopedia
[10] One political contributor to l’Encyclopédie was this thinker that wrote the autobiographical Reveries of a
Solitary Walker as well as the Discourse on Inequality.
ANSWER: Jean-Jacques Rousseau
11. The Miller-Rabin test can be used to determine if a number has this property. For 10 points each:
[10] Name this type of number, which includes a Mersenne version restricted to those that are one less than a
power of 2.
ANSWER: prime number [accept word forms]
[10] This common encryption algorithm, named after three mathematicians, requires two primes p and q, and
makes use of the Euler’s totient function of the product of those primes.
ANSWER: Rivest-Shamir-Adleman algorithm
[10] The Euler’s totient function of n returns the number of positive integers less than n with this property. It
means that the greatest common divisor between n and any of those positive integers is 1.
ANSWER: coprime or relative prime [do not accept “prime” alone]
12. One categorization of them is between introverted and extroverted, while another level of differentiation is
between sensation, intution, thinking, and feeling. For 10 points each,
[10] Give the term for these constructs that title a 1921 text.
ANSWER: psychological types
[10] This Swiss psychologist wrote Psychological Types as well as The Psychology of the Unconscious.
ANSWER: Carl Jung
[10] Another person to work on types of personalities is this man, who created the Cutlure Fair Intelligence Test,
theorized fluid and crystallized intelligence, and wrote The Scientific Analysis of Personality.
ANSWER: Raymond Cattell
13. Identify the following about some Swedish bands who have found success on the American music charts, for 10
points each.
[10] Possibly the most recognizable Swedish band, ABBA, only hit #1 on Billboard once, with this song. In it, the
title character is “looking out for the place to go”, “feel the beat from the tambourine” and is “having the time of
your life”.
ANSWER: “Dancing Queen”
[10] Although this group hit #2 with “All That She Wants”, they’re best known for a track that asks, “How could a
person like you bring me joy”. That song by this band also declares, “Life is demanding without understanding”.
ANSWER: Ace of Base
[10] “It Must Have Been Love”, a #1 hit for Roxette, really took off after it was included on the soundtrack to this
movie. In it, title character Vivian Ward delivers the line, “I would have stayed for two thousand”.
ANSWER: Pretty Woman
14. One of the few European successes in this campaign was the Siege of Lisbon. For 10 points each:
[10] Name this campaign that was triggered by Zengi of Mosul’s capture of Edessa in the Holy Land.
ANSWER: Second Crusade
[10] The crusaders chose to attack this city, a former ally. Unfortunately, they did not realize that this city, home to
the Ummayad Mosque, had called in Said ad-Din Ghazi I and Nur ad-Din to help, and they got smashed.
ANSWER: Damascus
[10] Bernard of Clairvaux preached around Europe in support of the Second Crusade, and convinced this German
king to join the cause. His nephew and successor, Frederick Barbarossa, later died in the Third Crusade.
ANSWER: Conrad III
15. One of this man’s plays ends with the actor Charlie Castle committing suicide to avoid being linked to a hitand-run scandal by Dixie Evans. For 10 points each:
[10] Name this American playwright of The Big Knife and Awake and Sing!
ANSWER: Clifford Odets
[10] This one act Odets play written in 1935 was his first to be produced. At the beginning of this play, Harry Fatt
urges members of a taxi drivers' union, including Joe Hill, to plan a strike..
ANSWER: Waiting for Lefty
[10] In this other Odets play, Tom Moody becomes the manager for the musician-turned-fighter Joe Bonaparte to
acquire enough money to marry his mistress, Lorna.
ANSWER: Golden Boy
16. Because their chief creator god, Bondye, is inaccessible to worldly requests, adherents aim their prayers to
lower spirits known as loa. For 10 points each,
[10] Name this religion, practiced in Haiti, whose priests, depending on their gender, are known as Houngans or
Mambos.
ANSWER: Voodoo
[10] Often associated with Ellegua or Orunmila, this figure from Voodoo acts as an intermediary between humans
and the loa and can speak all languages.
ANSWER: Papa Legba
[10] Usually depicted with a black top hat and a tuxedo, this loa, the leader of the Guede, is the lord of the realm of
the dead.
ANSWER: Baron Samedi
17. One of his laws states that in equilibrium, the absorptivity of a surface equals its emissivity. For 10 points
each:
[10] Name this physicist who also developed two circuit laws, one for balancing current at a junction and the other
for voltage in a loop.
ANSWER: Gustav Kirchhoff
[10] By using Kirchhoffs circuit laws, one can find the resistance of a component by using this arrangement. It has
the unknown component and three known resistors forming two legs of a bridge linked by a galvanometer.
ANSWER: Wheatstone bridge [prompt on “potentiometer”]
[10] The Schering bridge adds three objects to the Wheatstone bridge to determine this electrical property.
ANSWER: capacitance [accept “capacitor”]
18. This poem begins by describing “A crystal willow, a poplar of water, a tall fountain the wind arches over.” For
10 points each:
[10] Name this poem whose speaker says, “I travel your length, like a river/I travel your body, like a forest.”
ANSWER: Sunstone or Piedra del Sol
[10] Name this author of Sunstone whose essay collections include The Bow and the Lyre and Alternating Current.
ANSWER: Octavio Paz
[10] Paz wrote this collection of essays about Mexican culture which has sections like “The Day of the Dead” and
“The Conquest and Colonialism”.
ANSWER: The Labyrinth of Solitude or El laberinto de la soledad
19. Its post-independence borders left many of its ethnicity outside the country, leading to conflicts as recent as
those in Kosovo. For 10 points each:
[10] Name this European nation that was ruled by King Zog before Italy occupied it in 1939.
ANSWER: Albania or Shqipëri
[10] For most of the Cold War, Albania was ruled by this Communist. His criticism of Krushchev led to Albania’s
withdrawal from the Warsaw Pact.
ANSWER: Enver Hoxha
[10] Hoxha tried to eradicate this long-lasting Albanian code of laws, on the basis of its mistreatment of women and
eye-for-an-eye blood feuds. It has seen a revival in Albania after the fall of communism, however.
ANSWER: Code of Lekë or the Kanun
20. For 10 points each, identify these places near Tokyo, Japan.
[10] This city south of Tokyo is a popular beach getaway and is home to a large bronze Buddha. It was the seat of a
shogunate that ruled Japan in the 13th and 14th centuries.
ANSWER: Kamakura
[10] Between Kamakura and Tokyo is this major port. Commodore Perry landed and signed the Convention of
Kanagawa here in 1854, and it grew as a hub of foreign trade.
ANSWER: Yokohama
[10] This mountain, still an active volcano, conatins a forest named Aokigahara at its base. It was notably painted
36 times in a series by Katsushika Hokusai.
ANSWER: Mount Fuji